Dependence Assessment in Human Reliability Analysis Using Evidence Theory and AHP

Risk Analysis

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1296-1316

  Su, Xiaoyan ^a   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^b   Xu, Peida ^c   Deng, Yong ^d  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRIC POWER   (China)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AHP; Dempster Shafer evidence theory; Dependence; Human error probability; Human reliability analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMPUTATION THEORY; ERRORS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY THEORY;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); BASIC BELIEF ASSIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE; DEMPSTER SHAFER EVIDENCE THEORY; DEPENDENCE; HUMAN ERROR PROBABILITY; HUMAN RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERT SYSTEM; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HOMINID; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84938214454     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/risa.12347     Document Type: Article

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